Afterwit

New York based DJ, Afterwit, has come a long way to arrive at dance music...

New York based DJ, Afterwit, has come a long way to arrive at dance music. Studying Violin as young child, he quickly grew tired at the prospect of only playing music from long dead european men. Two influences would take over his musical life, rock music and his occasional visits to Philadelphia hip-hop record shop Armand's. After a long battle with his parents, they decided against allowing the impressionable preteen to purchase turntables, and that guitar was a more suitable replacement for violin. After playing in jambands and improvisational acid-jazz groups in Philadelphia, while also producing hip-hop beats on the side, he left Philadelphia for New York to pursue music composition studies with some of the most prominent avant-garde composers in the world. Recognized as an early talent, he made the move across the Atlantic to further continue his studies at the Basel Musik Hochschule. A month long trip to Berlin for German courses would solidify a love affair with electronic music, where he would return as often as possible when his studies afforded him the time. He has been an active DJ in the Basel party scene, known for throwing marathon parties after contemporary classical music concerts. Finally finished with compositional studies leaves only more time to dance and produce. We'll see what happens.